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Time to see if Bolton has the balls to call the Adminstration out on their threats
And a source close to him says he is intent on publishing the book as scheduled Tuesday, meaning he expects to deal with any ramifications from the administration in the aftermath, not before.
Trump said Bolton would have "criminal problems" if the book was published as is. The lawsuit filed Tuesday is a civil suit, and carries no criminal penalties.
In a statement, the American Civil Liberties Union compared the suit to the Nixon administration's failed attempt to block newspapers' publication of the Pentagon Papers, which detailed a secret history of the Vietnam War.
"A half-century ago the Supreme Court rejected a similar attempt by the Nixon administration to block the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and since then it has been firmly established that prior restraints on publication are unconstitutional and un-American," the ACLU said.
Early revelations from the book have already made waves in Washington.
Trump administration sues Bolton over book dispute
The Trump administration asked a federal judge on Tuesday to order former national security adviser John Bolton to stop the publication of his upcoming book on his White House tenure, arguing in a lawsuit that Bolton had breached non-disclosure agreements and was risking national security by...
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